The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates, but they are a good place to park. Please park in the neighborhood and make the short walk to the final, once you have figured it out!
THIS IS A BONUS CACHE!
In order to find this Bonus Cache, you will need to have found the three Rubik's Sudoku puzzle caches, and noted the code letters at the top of the logsheet for each one. The three caches are:
Now, to put those code letters to work! But first, a bit of history about the Rubik's Cube.
THE HISTORY OF THE RUBIK’S CUBE
The Rubik’s Cube has been tantalising and enchanting people for over 40 years. It was created in 1974 and is the world’s best-selling toy ever!
Ernõ Rubik, a professor from Budapest In Hungary, wanted to help his students understand three-dimensional problems. His solution? The Magic Cube!
His solid cube did things that the world hadn't seen before. It twisted and turned yet it didn’t break. Adding 54 colorful stickers to the six sides gave this amazing puzzle its iconic look. When Ernõ Rubik built his first Cube, it took him over a month to solve it.
At that time, he didn’t know that his “Magic Cube” – “Buvos Kocka” in Hungarian - would take the world by storm. The Magic Cube became more and more popular in Hungary during the late 1970s. Ernõ Rubik realised the potential of his invention. But – in communist Hungary in the 1970s, imports and exports were tightly controlled. The answer? Toy fairs!
Its global impact began in 1980 at toy fairs and conferences in London, New York, Paris and Nuremberg. Enthusiastic mathematicians gave the Magic Cube its first global stage. Toy specialist Tom Kremer was at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1979. He saw the power and potential of the Cube and wanted to sell it to the rest of the world.
Tom Kremer’s passion and belief in the Cube convinced the Ideal Toy Company to distribute the Magic Cube. They wanted one important change… a new name! The Rubik’s Cube’s global launch was in 1980. The newer Cubes were half the weight of the earlier models. Solve times became much faster!
Between 1980 and 1982 an estimated 100 million cubes were sold worldwide. Since its international launch in 1980, an estimated 400 million Rubik’s Cubes have been sold. An amazing one in seven people have played with this fascinating and frustrating puzzle.
And, did you know there are more than 43 quintillion ways to scramble The Rubik’s Cube? In fact, there are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possibilities!
Now it's time to solve the Sudoku below, and use the letter clues from the logsheets of the previous 3 caches to come up with the coordinates. Be sure to validate your solution with the certitude checker - Homer has the final clue you will need to find the container! NOTE - if you solved this prior to 9-20-2022, the combination given in Certitudes no longer applies. There is a new clue to find the final container.
FINAL COORDINATES:
N 38 13.ABC W 122 07.DEF where:
A=Sudoku #1 first letter D=Sudoku #1 second letter
B=Sudoku #2 first letter E=Sudoku #2 second letter
C=Sudoku #3 first letter F=Sudoku #3 second letter
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Congratulations to RowanKP on the FTS, and Shrektrician on the FTF!